Sunrise...Sunset
It seems as though I am the only person in the world who isn't in tune with the sunset. I remember one evening as a very young child sitting on our front porch and watching as the sun was giving its final show for the day. Although it was magnificent, I had the loneliest feeling as I sat with my little hands folded under my chin watching as it kept sinking lower and lower until finally it seemed as though it dropped completely off the earth. I have no idea why I felt that way, but to this day I still get the same feeling. To me, it is the loneliest few moments of the day and I am not even the type of person who is ruled by the weather, its factors or to spend time feeling lonely.
However, I love a beautiful sunrise. To me a sunrise points to another new day with new adventures and a day of accomplishments. As I sit here in my recliner writing this column, the sun is coming up and is creating prisms of light on the ceiling with the beautiful colors of the rainbow. I suppose it is reflecting on something to create those natural, not man made colors of orange, yellow and blue.
Sunrise, sunset. Both are beautiful but with different meanings to me. Yet if you showed me a picture of each side by side, I doubt if I could tell the one from the other.
Even though I love the beginning of a new day, I also love nightfall after the sunset. I love to look at the stars. In fact, I can get lost in their magic. The way they twinkle and smile at me. Sometimes they make me think of angels dancing high in the heavens. Oftentimes I reach my hands towards them and imagine God placing them in my hands where I twirl them the way a child does a sparkler on the Fourth of July making beautiful designs and colors. Or play connect the stars, making all kinds of creations in my mind.
By now you probably realize that when it comes to nature, I am eclectic in my feelings. I say this because I also love a rainy, cloudy day. Most of my life I have felt guilty because I enjoy rainy days when everyone else is longing for the sunshine and I am perfectly happy with the cloudy days. Those are the days I love to light candles, be it winter, spring, summer or fall and watch an old black and white movie or read. You might even find me out scurrying around running errands and jumping across puddles with a giggle or you might even see me just taking some 'windshield' time, driving down a muddy road and singing to the top of my voice knowing no one can hear me.
I know we need the sunlight to give us a boost of vitamin D also known as the sunshine vitamin. It has been said that sunlight affects the production of hormones, called endorphins which play a role in giving us a sense of well being and happiness.
Bottom line is that our Heavenly Father created all the various types of weather and seasons for one reason or another. We need both the clouds, rain and sunshine to make living things grow and to give us joy.
In 2 Samuel 23:3 and 4 when the Lord was speaking to David about how those who ruleth over men should rule, He said "He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." You know how a blade of grass sparkles after the rain.
With this in mind, I have come to realize that I no longer have to feel guilty because I enjoy the cloudy, rainy days, for it takes both the sunshine and the rain to give us what we need.
Remember, you never know when you might show up as my hero or heroine.
See ya next time somewhere in a "Korner".
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